.Randolph Hock
Dr. Randolph Hock is the author of eight books and numerous articles on the use of Internet for research. Among others The Extreme Searcher’s Internet Handbook (2004, 2007, 2010, 2013). Over his career he has trained over 15,000 online users in thirteen countries. He has created courses for professional associations, government agencies, international organizations, schools, libraries, and companies. He has held management and training positions with DIALOG and Knight-Ridder Information Services and has served as chemistry librarian at M.I.T. and as a reference librarian at the University of Pennsylvania. Ran is active in the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and is also a member of the International Association For Intelligence Education. He is a recipient of OSS.NET’s OSINT Platinum Candle Award.
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Keynote: “Brave New Search World”[Engelstalig]
With relatively little fanfare, the nature of “search” is changing radically. Leaving the “old” Boolean in the dust, structure is being created from unstructured data, the Semantic Web has come to life, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is moving in with “knowledge graphs” and impressive entity extraction, natural language search statements now really work, and image recognition is now an operative reality. Further good news is that this is coming not just from Google, but other sites, particularly for news search. This talk will provide a tour of what’s happening and how searchers can most fully take advantage of this new world of search.

.Andy Black
Andy has over 25 years’ experience in exploiting technology, content and information to achieve strategic objectives. He has worked on a number of ground-breaking projects including the Excalibur rapid rebuttal database for the UK Labour Party General Election campaign in 1997, using Banksy imagery in the General Election social media campaign for the Lib Dems in 2010 and managing campaigns and services for Honda, Vodafone, Reuters, Jane’s Information, The Independent and the Daily Mail. During this period Andy has had senior positions in companies including Perfect Information, Excalibur Technologies, Business Objects and Convera Corporation.
Currently he is specialist contractor to the UK Govt and is responsible for the design and delivery of the international communications skills courses and the design and delivery of the digital diplomacy training programme for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Lezing: “Is a mobile phone more dangerous than an AK47?”[Engelstalig]
In 2010 the Arab Spring started and surprised us all. It provided a stark example of how the simultaneous convergence of cloud computing, mobile devices, social media, Millennials and collaborative tools can enable and empower self-organising networks to overthrow hierarchical structures. But by 2015 the promise of less corrupt and more representative government across the region was instead replaced by instability and chaos. The removal of hierarchical structures had created a power vacuum.
The same type of revolution is now sweeping across the business world. Digital transformation enables Amazon or Alibaba to compete with high street retailers, ecommerce or bitcoin to challenge the dollar and robots or artificial intelligence to replace middle-class managerial jobs.
What do the latest statistics and trends indicate? How are governments across the world reacting to these challenges? Why is social media so crucial in international diplomacy and foreign affairs?

.Paul Gunstone
Originally trained as an electronics and telecommunications engineer, Paul moved into commercial roles over 30 years ago and in the years since has led teams developing and delivering innovative products and services to commercial and government clients. He has been involved in Enterprise Statistical, Analytics and BI Software; Business Continuity; and Technology Research & Advisory Services. For over a decade with Gartner Inc, he worked with the CIOs of global energy, pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies together with utility and central government departments in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Today he leads the commercial activities in EMEA and Asia Pac for Smartlogic – an organisation focussed on Content Intelligence
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Lezing: “Content Intelligence”[Engelstalig]
“Production” in any organization depends on information. Production can be defined in many ways; the effectiveness in a public sector enterprise, it can be the output of a manufacturing process or the efficiency in a financial services firm. For most organizations today, the digital and actionable information available to support production (and improvements in production) amounts to only 20% of the picture. We call this structured information, or ‘data’.
Some 80% of an organization’s information is unstructured information, what we call ‘content’. It is in the form of engineers reports, meeting minutes, service logs, CVs, emails, process descriptions and policy documents, etc. It is in a host of different software systems and file stores, in a variety of file formats and frequently uses different language to describe the same “things”. It is inaccessible, extremely difficult to analyse and almost impossible to make timely business decisions based on it.
Until now …
Content Intelligence is the combination of semantic technology and information science that allows machines to model, interpret, describe, analyze and visualize the ‘content’ of the enterprise in order to leverage the human intelligence locked in that content.